Issue295


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Alpha 1 Released!
    2. Welcome New Members and Developers
  3. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Translation Stats Quantal
    3. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top ideas this week
    4. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  4. LoCo News
    1. “Ubuntizando” the day of the candles in Bogota #Ubuntu
    2. LoCos, now it’s your time to take the stage!
  5. Launchpad News
    1. Private Projects and Private Blueprints leave beta
  6. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. New Juju Website Ready
    2. State of Juju and the Charm Store
  7. The Planet
    1. Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu Development Hangouts for you
    2. Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Top 10 Ubuntu App Downloads for November
    3. Kubuntu: KDE Plasma, Applications and Platform 4.9.4
    4. Daniel Holbach: The Packaging Guide finally does speak Spanish
    5. Stephen Michael Kellat: Column: Why WCIT-12 Matters
    6. Michael Hall: A sneak peek inside Ubuntu Skunkworks
    7. Randall Ross: "Raring" to Try Your Nexus 7 with Ubuntu?
    8. Jono Bacon: On Richard Stallman and Ubuntu
    9. Jono Bacon: Improving Community ‘Getting Involved’ Documentation
  8. Canonical News
    1. Searching in the Dash in Ubuntu 13.04
  9. In The Press
    1. Is Ubuntu Software Management User Friendly?
    2. Ubuntu Linux and Windows 8: Head-to-Head at Last
    3. Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?
  10. In The Blogosphere
    1. Canonical Shop Offering 3 Ubuntu Xmas Gift Deals
    2. Here Comes Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix
    3. More Online Results Heading to Ubuntu Dash in 13.04
    4. Steam Games Begin Adding Linux System Requirements
  11. Other Articles of Interest
  12. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Burning Circle Episode 93
    2. UK LoCo: S05E21 – The Behaviour of Crowds
  13. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  15. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 12.10 Updates
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 295 for the week December 3 - 9, 2012.

In This Issue

  • 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Alpha 1 Released!
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • “Ubuntizando” the day of the candles in Bogota #Ubuntu

  • LoCos, now it’s your time to take the stage!

  • Private Projects and Private Blueprints leave beta
  • New Juju Website Ready
  • State of Juju and the Charm Store
  • Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu Development Hangouts for you
  • Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Top 10 Ubuntu App Downloads for November
  • Daniel Holbach: The Packaging Guide finally does speak Spanish
  • Michael Hall: A sneak peek inside Ubuntu Skunkworks
  • Randall Ross: "Raring" to Try Your Nexus 7 with Ubuntu?
  • Jono Bacon: Improving Community ‘Getting Involved’ Documentation
  • Searching in the Dash in Ubuntu 13.04
  • Is Ubuntu Software Management User Friendly?
  • Ubuntu Linux and Windows 8: Head-to-Head at Last
  • Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10
  • And much more!

General Community News

13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Alpha 1 Released!

Stéphane Graber, a member of the Ubuntu release team, announces the release of Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Alpha 1 for Edubuntu and Kubuntu. The release announcement can be found at:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2012-December/000998.html

Welcome New Members and Developers

Results from the 2012-11-19 Developer Membership Board meeting

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2012-December/001698.html

Announced on December 4th, Forum Council has approved Ubuntu Membership for forum contributions to:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2012-December/001700.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (102456) -68 over last week
  • Critical (86) -6 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (50738) -7 over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Translation Stats Quantal

  • English (United Kingdom) (9000) +/-0 over last week
  • Spanish (13605) -59 over last week
  • English (Australia) (17039) +/-0 over last week
  • Bosnian (30887) -4791 over last week
  • Brazilian Portuguese (38459) -4 over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top ideas this week

Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week

Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com

LoCo News

“Ubuntizando” the day of the candles in Bogota #Ubuntu

Jhosman Lizarazo shares news from the Ubuntu Columbia LoCo which celebrated the day of the candles in the streets of Bogota to promote Ubuntu. The team gave out DVDs and flyers promoting Ubuntu; Lizarazo shares photos from the event.

http://jhosman.com/en/locoteams/ubuntizando-the-day-of-the-candles-in-bogota-ubuntu/

LoCos, now it’s your time to take the stage!

José Antonio Rey of the Ubuntu Classroom team puts out a call for members of LoCo teams to get involved in a new initiative by Ubuntu Classroom to host sessions about running LoCos, events, and more.

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2012/12/09/locos-now-its-your-time-to-take-the-stage/

Launchpad News

Private Projects and Private Blueprints leave beta

As of the 4th of December, the Private Projects and Private Blueprints features in Launchpad leave their beta period, and are now stable. A commercial subscription is required to use these features, but anyone who creates a Private Project and/or a Private Blueprint will enter into a 30-day trial commercial subscription.

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/private-projects-and-private-blueprints-leave-beta

Ubuntu Cloud News

New Juju Website Ready

Jorge Castro of the Canonical Community Team reports that they have created a new website for JuJu Charm at http://jujucharms.com/. Castro welcomes everyone to help file bugs against the site.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/12/05/new-juju-website-ready/

State of Juju and the Charm Store

Jorge Castro writes to the development mailing list about the state of JuJu and the Charms, and asks the community for help with writing charms, documentation, and more.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-December/036226.html

The Planet

Daniel Holbach: Ubuntu Development Hangouts for you

Daniel Holbach announces the guest schedule for the Ubuntu Development Hangouts in December, and says more sessions and dates will be added.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2012/12/ubuntu-development-hangouts-for-you/

Ubuntu App Developer Blog: Top 10 Ubuntu App Downloads for November

The Ubuntu App Developers announces the Top 10 Ubuntu App Downloads for November and congratulates RC Mini Racers for reaching the #2 spot on the Top 10 Paid Apps list after it first debuted in November.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/2012/12/top-10-ubuntu-app-downloads-for-november/

Kubuntu: KDE Plasma, Applications and Platform 4.9.4

The Kubuntu development team announces the release of KDE SC 4.9.4 packages for Kubuntu 12.04 LTS and 12.10 users.

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-sc-4.9.4

Daniel Holbach: The Packaging Guide finally does speak Spanish

Daniel Holbach writes that the Ubuntu Packaging Guide has finally been released to Spanish developers, and urges everybody to help improve or translate the guide.

http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2012/12/the-packaging-guide-finally-does-speak-spanish/

Stephen Michael Kellat: Column: Why WCIT-12 Matters

Stephen Michael Kellat writes about the importance of the World Conference on International Communications 2012, and talks about why it will have a large impact on the Free/Libre Open Source Software community.

http://erielookingproductions.info/ubuntu/2012/12/23-column-why-wcit-12-matters/

Michael Hall: A sneak peek inside Ubuntu Skunkworks

Michael Hall of Canonical says Ubuntu Skunkworks is already underway. He analyzes the areas of interest and knowledge of the applicants and encourages interested people to join, too.

http://mhall119.com/2012/12/a-sneak-peak-inside-ubuntu-skunkworks/

Randall Ross: "Raring" to Try Your Nexus 7 with Ubuntu?

Randall Ross of the Ubuntu Nexus7 Team writes about his experience and contributions to put Ubuntu Core on a Nexus 7, and writes that the Raring Ringtail images are now available to Nexus 7.

http://randall.executiv.es/raring_nexus7

Jono Bacon: On Richard Stallman and Ubuntu

In response to Richard Stallman's concern about Ubuntu and its innovations, namely the shopping lens being “spyware” (see “In the Press” for Stallman’s article), Jono Bacon writes the following article where he articulates that Ubuntu is not spyware and shouldn’t be treated that way. Bacon, therefore, seeks to calm the situation with an explanation where he thinks Ubuntu is heading, why such innovations occur, and what these innovations bring to the project.

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/12/07/on-richard-stallman-and-ubuntu/

Jono Bacon: Improving Community ‘Getting Involved’ Documentation

Jono Bacon writes about problems new members face when joining the community and improvements made in this regard. Bacon and his team fleshed out specific improvements at UDS-R, including refining information for new members and moving the documentation to a Wordpress platform. On Thursday, December 13th, Bacon and his team will be hosting a “Docs Jam” to get the process started. More information and guidelines can be found on Bacon’s blog and following links: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityWebsite http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

http://www.jonobacon.org/2012/12/09/improving-community-getting-involved-documentation/

Canonical News

Searching in the Dash in Ubuntu 13.04

Cristian Parrino writes about improvements made to the Unity Dash in Ubuntu 13.04 including “smart scopes”, “instant purchasing”, and reinforces the principles around which the Dash is desiged.

http://blog.canonical.com/2012/12/07/searching-in-the-dash-in-ubuntu-13-04/

In The Press

Is Ubuntu Software Management User Friendly?

Matt Harley of Datamation writes about the benefits and drawbacks of the Ubuntu Software Center, and that he thinks the Software Center has room for improvement.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/is-ubuntu-software-management-user-friendly-1.html

Ubuntu Linux and Windows 8: Head-to-Head at Last

Katherine Noyes of Linux Insider discusses some of the many comments from a recent “10 reasons to choose Ubuntu 12.10 over Windows 8” article in PCWorld, where commenters came out of the woodwork with a variety of opinions on the article and both operating systems.

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/76787.html

Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation writes about his disappointment around Canonical installing what he calls “surveillance code” in Ubuntu and urges GNU/Linux users to not recommend the distro.

http://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/ubuntu-spyware-what-to-do

In The Blogosphere

Canonical Shop Offering 3 Ubuntu Xmas Gift Deals

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes about the new Christmas gift deals available in the Canonical Shop which include the Boombero Speaker deal, an Ubuntu Office Essentials Bundle, and an Ubuntu Winter Bundle.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/12/ubuntu-store-xmas-offers

Here Comes Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix

Saurav Modak of Muktware writes about the Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix, which is Ubuntu with a Cinnamon desktop environment, and talks about its Linux Mint-like interface.

http://www.muktware.com/4919/here-comes-ubuntu-cinnamon-remix#.UL5FfeTK6Lk

More Online Results Heading to Ubuntu Dash in 13.04

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG!Ubuntu writes about the improved search results for the Unity Dash in Ubuntu 13.04, with more scopes, better results, instant purchasing of music and apps, and better commercial suggestions.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/12/more-online-results-heading-to-ubuntu-dash-in-13-04

Steam Games Begin Adding Linux System Requirements

Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! writes about the new list of Linux system requirements for Steam games, and brings us the newest updates on Steam for Linux.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/12/steam-games-begin-adding-linux-system-requirements

Burning Circle Episode 93

Stephen Michael Kellat from the Ohio LoCo discussed the LoCo getting back on track, making monthly reports, and exhorted others to get out and be active since the weather is proving milder than usual.

http://ohio.ubuntu-us.org/node/126

UK LoCo: S05E21 – The Behaviour of Crowds

“Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, Laura Cowen, and podcats are back in Studio A for the twenty-first episode of Season Five of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!”

Topics include:

  • Crowdsourcing funding for projects
  • Minecraft and donating to Wikipedia, posting a parcel, going to a bike maintenance workshop, moonlighting on the Doctor Who Podcast and buying a Nexus 4.
  • In the news this week
  • Upcoming events

And more!

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2012/12/05/s05e21-the-behaviour-of-crowds/

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

Upcoming Meetings and Events

For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/

Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

End of life - April 2013 (Server)

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2013 (Desktop) - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 11.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2013

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 12.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2014

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Glossary of Terms

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